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Author Guidelines

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Research In Chemical Engineering

  THE GENERAL GUIDELINES OF MANUSCRIPT

 Prior submission, authors should ensure that:

1. Manuscript is the authentic research result that has not been published yet in other publication media or publishing houses.
2. Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked.'
3. All figure and table citations in the text match the files provided.
4. The files uploaded include the manuscript, all figures (include relevant captions), and all tables (including titles, description, footnotes)
5. All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa.
6. Referee suggestions and contact details provided, if possible

Manuscript preparation, authors have to follow these requirements:

1. Strictly follow the author guide, failure to do this may result the manuscripts to be rejected without review. Editors reserve the right to adjust the style to certain standards of uniformity.
2. Meet the following structure when typing manuscript: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgements, Conflict of Interest, Credi authorship contribution statement, References
3. Text layout:

• Use 1 spacingand wide (2 cm) margins on A4 paper (one column)
• Use 11 pt font sizeand Calibri light.
• Ensure that each new paragraph is clearly indicated.
• Present tables and figure legends include in the manuscript.
• Number all pages consecutively using the automatic page numbering function.
• Maximum page length (including text, references, tables and figures should be 30 (Research article) and 60 pages (Review paper)

THE GUIDELINES OF MANUSCRIPT BODY TEXT

The Title of the Manuscript

The title should be informative and be written both briefly and clearly. It cannot diverse multi-interpretations. It has to be pinpoint with the issues that will be discussed. The beginning word is written in the capital case and symmetrically. The article title does not contain any uncommon abbreviation. The title should be written not more than 18 words, 14 pt-sized font Calibri light, with the bold selection and in the align left text format.

Authors

The manuscript has main author and co-authors with a full name (no abbreviation). The full name of each author and co-authors should be followed by each affiliation, the city and with postal code, and country of affiliation. The e-mail of the corresponding author should also be indicated.

 Abstract

Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references. Use 11 pt Calibri light  with 1 line space for text. If article using Bahasa, please provide abstract in both English and Bahasa. Please provide 3 to 5 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.

Introduction

Provide an adequate background supported with adequate literature reviews.  State the objectives of the work. This should not be more than three pages in general.

Materials and Methods

Provide sufficient details research methods to allow the work to be reproduced by an independent researcher. Methods that are already published should be summarized and indicated by a reference. Any modifications to existing methods should also be described.

Results and Discussion

Results should be clear and concise, and be part of a single section, discussing the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. Discussion should be supported by adequate citation of the published literature.

Conclusion

The main conclusions drawn from results should be presented in a short. Avoid repetition as previously stated in the abstract, for example, and maximum 250 words.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the title page. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

Conflict of interest

Author to provide statement whether the manuscript has a conflict of interest or not.

Credit authorship contribution statement.

Credit authorship should be share an accurate and detailed description of their diverse contributions to the published work. The example of contribution of statement including Concenptualization, methodology, validation, formal analysis, investigation, data curation, writing-original draft, writing-review editing, supervision, etc

References and Citation

Author to provide list of reference citattion in text using bibliography IEEE (numbering) and highly recommended using reference manager such as Mendeley or end-note

Reference list

The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list. The entries in the list should follow IEEE style.. For the reference list and citation, it is advised to use online referencing and citation tools/software such as Mendeley, Zotero, Endnote, etc. Articles must have 10 years recent references and 80% is peer-reviewed international journal. The most of references are primary ones (last five years). References consist of a minimum of 10 references. .

TABLES GUIDELINES

• All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
• Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
• Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
• For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
• Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
• A maximum of 6 Tables are included in the manuscript.

 ARTWORK AND ILLUSTRATIONS GUIDELINES

Electronic Figure Submission

• Supply all figures electronically.
• Indicate what graphics program was used to create the artwork.
• For vector graphics, the preferred format is EPS; for halftones, please use TIFF or JPEG format with minimal 600dpi. MSOffice files are also acceptable.
• Name your figure files with "Figure" and the figure number, e.g., Figure 1. Figure Numbering
• All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
• Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
• Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.).
• Maximum  of 6 Figures are included in the manuscript

 Figure Captions

• Each figure should have a concise caption describing accurately what the figure depicts. Include the captions in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file.
• Figure captions begin with the term Fig. in bold type, followed by the figure number, also in bold type.
• No punctuation is to be included after the number, nor is any punctuation to be placed at the end of the caption.
• Identify all elements found in the figure in the figure caption; and use boxes, circles, etc., as coordinate points in graphs.
• Identify previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference citation at the end of the figure caption.

Figure Placement and Size

• Figures should be submitted separately as a single file as JPEG or TIFF.
• When preparing your figures, size figures to fit in the column width.

Permissions

If you include figures that have already been published elsewhere, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format.